PIX on Windows

Performance tuning and debugging for DirectX 12 games on Windows

Saving and Loading PIX Settings

The Settings layout, accessible from the PIX Home tab, provides several controls for configuring various aspects of the PIX user interface and capturing experience.  These settings, along with Timing Capture Timeline configurations, Metrics view configurations, and Metrics View Consolidated Event Patterns can be exported from PIX and saved ...

Defining custom regular expressions for consolidated events in the Timing Capture Metrics view

The consolidated events feature in the Timing Capture Metrics view is used to group, or consolidate, PIX events that follow a common pattern into a single event for purposes of graphing in the Metrics View.  A common use of this feature is to group events such as "Frame 1", "Frame 2", "Frame 3" and so on into a single event.  Prior to the ...

Timing Capture Statistical Comparison Features

Starting with the 2310.30 version of PIX on Windows, the Timing Capture Metrics view can produce a statistical comparision of the average duration for the points that represent PIX event hierarchies in two selected ranges of time.  Statistical comparisions help determine which portions of the event hierarchies had statistically different ...